Template:Double+single/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Double+single.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be used in citation templates such as Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, because it includes markup that will pollute the COinS metadata they produce; see Wikipedia:COinS.

Usage

The {{" '}} template (or {{Double+single}} in long form) is for use at the beginning of a 'single-quoted' quotation that also begins a "double-quoted" quotation (or a double-quoted passage that begins with an apostrophe). Its purpose is to slightly space the double and single quotation marks apart for legibility, without actually inserting a space character. It does this with CSS, and does so because the insertion of an extranous space character of any kind would be a violation of the semantic integrity of the web content of the article or other page in which it appeared.

Example (with highlighting added for clarity)

Using the template:

Gonzales added, {{" '}}Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

Gonzales added, "'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

For comparison, here is the completely unspaced version:

Gonzales added, "'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

Gonzales added, "'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

And here is the version with a semantically incorrect non-breaking space character:

Gonzales added, " 'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

Gonzales added, " 'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."

When rendered, the non-breaking-spaced version looks similar to or the same as the template version, but improperly mixes content and presentation.

The equivalent template when used inside a template parameter that automatically provides double quotes (e.g. |title= in {{cite web}}) is {{-'}} (Template:Space+single). See also {{' "}} and {{'-}} for the right-hand side versions (manual and parameter, respectively).

{{'}} (Template:Apostrophe) – for use with adjacent italic markup
{{'s}} – for use immediately following italic markup
{{`}} – for use not immediately following italic markup
{{′}} (Template:Prime)
{{''}}
{{' "}} (Template:Single+double)
{{" '}} (Template:Double+single)
{{' '}} (Template:Single+single)
{{" ' "}} (Template:Double+single+double)
{{' " '}} (Template:Single+double+single)
{{-"}} (Template:Space+double)
{{"-}} (Template:Double+space)
{{-'}} (Template:Space+single)
{{'-}} (Template:Single+space)
{{--)}} (Template:Space+parenthesis) (it's --) because ) and -) were already used by other templates)
{{(-}} (Template:Parenthesis+space) (using (-- also works, for consistency with the one above)